Lessons for the Young Economist!
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Robert Murphy’s book is here!
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When clicking on it, pic appears side ways.
I’ll ask first.
Will there be a free pdf or web version?
Beta is here ( http://mises.org/books/lessons_for_the_young_economist_murphy.pdf )
Alpha? Soon I hope.
I think alpha versions come before beta versions.
Haha, touche.
Joe, it’s been up for months
Are there many changes from Beta JT? Or just formatting etc.
Right, I meant the latest version!
Suggestion: you should provide on the description page the recommended age range of the student. I’m wondering if it’s appropriate for my 7 year old, for example, or if we need to wait a few years.
Stephan,
According to the introduction, it was read by a class of 7th graders (12 year olds) as a test of the material’s content and tone as it was being written.
I don’t think a 7-year old would have the request capacity for abstract thinking. Too young.
The beta is down and the real one is posted.
Image fixed.
Jeffrey,
I just downloaded the ‘real’ pdf and major text display problems remain.
Basically, things like bulleted text and headers and other abnormal text tend to be unintelligble due to overwrittem text lines when viewed on at least some mobil devices.
The simplest demonstration of this is likely to be on page 3 when viewing using the Dropbox App on the iPad. The three lines under ‘In this lesson you will learn’ are all unreadable.
Other problems appear on pages : 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 19(even the pg # is overwritten), 21, 22, 27, 29(as above), 31, 35(), 37(), 39(), 41(), 42, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52, 53(this page may or not have the text problem, but the top half of the page is blank), 59(), 61, 65, 67(), 68, 71, 73, 74,
75(), 76, 77(), 79(), 81, 82, 85(), 95(), 96, 97(), 98.
This completes an inspection through lesson 6, but the same kind of problems seem to persist throughout the rest of the book.
Thanks, Don
Briggs is really cheesin’ over the new book.
link?
Any chance on getting this converted to ePub format for eReaders? (PDFs tend to look funny on eReaders)
Just Isaac,
The ePub format is already in the Literature section. I just downloaded it, and it doen’t seem
to have any of the problems of the pdf version that I noted above.
Regards, Don
Who is going to read the audiobook?
Jeff Riggenbach?
My objection would be – his voice is all over the Rothbard material. And I like it like that.
Anyone else who is just as awesome?
Is it just me or does this book look rather large?
“Is it just me or does this book look rather large?”
It’s an optical illusion caused by the guy in the picture being so very thin.
It is 8.5.x11
look at his awful orange and blue tie. yuck!
Woah, it’s big.
Will This Generation Be Truly Educated?
And then a generation came along that was exposed to subjectivist methodology instead of empiricism! It changed the ‘landscape’ of the future! It was like a bird being freed from its cage in an ideal climate with plentiful grains and no predators and with many others of like kind to share the joy with!
I just read through the Contents page and I am very impressed. I was indeed looking for a textbook to teach Economics to 12-13 year old children. I think this fits the bill perfectly. Thanks, Professor Murphy.
Has an economics text ever made someone smile so wild or does he have a Playboy hidden inside?
This book is some really great stuff! There should be a link to the PDF and to the hardcover from the front page… promote!
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